Shirt-waist-retaining belt.



No. 870,452. PATENTED NOV. 5, 190 7.

E. J. MONTIGNY.

SHIRT WAIST RETAINING BELT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1907.

W/ TNE SSE S N VE IV 70/? gem. fmzzefjfazzizyizy w "Mra ATTORNEYS EMILE.J; MONTIGNY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT-WAIST-RETAINING BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed June 12. 1907. Serial No. 378,488.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE J. MONTIGNY, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of Newv York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Shirt-Waist-Retaining Belts, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a belt especially designed tobe worn in engagement with the outside surface of a shirtwaist, that is,between the waist line of the skirt and the shirtwaist, which belt willeffectually hold the shirtwaist down and will not at any point in itslength have a tendency to Work upward so as to appear above the skirtwaist-band.

It is a further purpose ofthe invention to so construct a belt of thecharacter described, that it will be light, well ventilated, and readilyapplied to or removed from the person, and also so that the belt willautomatically reduce its width at its sides to conform to the contour ofthe corresponding portions of the waist of the wearer, and yet be wornwith comfort.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the belt laid flat; Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the belt applied to the person; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailview of the central rear portion of the belt, illustrating the meansemployed for attaching it to the skirt band.

The body of the belt consists of two or more, preferably three, stripsdesignated respectively as A, B and C, which strips are in the form ofelastic tapes and are of medium width. These strips or tapes are ofequal length and are independent of each other, and the longitudinaledges of the said elastic tapes when arranged to form a belt somewhatclosely approach each other, but do not overlap, therefore normally thebelt when stretched out lies fiat, as is shown in Fig. 1.

Binding strips 10 and 11 of a suitable fabric connect the body strips ortapes at their end portions, as is also best shown in Fig. 1, and thebinding strip 10 is provided with eyelets 12, usually two in number, andthe opposing binding strip 11 has a corresponding number of hooks 13,similarly arranged, adapted when the belt is worn to enter the eyelets12, and hold the l belt upon the person. A central binding strip 14 alsoof fabric, is employed. This binding strip 14 extends around the groupedbody strips or tapes, passing however, from the front to the back, andis attached to all of the strips or tapes by a central transverse lineof stitching 15, and at each side of this line of stitching an eyelet 16is located in the intermediate binding strip 14, the said eyelets beingpassed through the intermediate body tape or strip B, as is illustratedin Figs. 1 and 3. These eyelets 16 are adapted to receive a member of asafety pin or hooks upon the waist band of a skirt to hold up thelatter.

When the belt has been fastened upon the person, its body tapes arenecessarily placed under tension and they serve to hold the shirtwaisteffectually down in place at the waist line, and the separated bodytapes or strips serve to render the belt hygienic, since it affordsmeans for ventilation, and at the same time the body strips or tapes atthe sides or points centrally between the intermediate binding strip andthe end binding strips gradually overlap, as is shown at 18 in Fig. 2,and in this manner the belt is comfortably contracted as to width at theside portions of the waist and is made to comfortably and truly conformto the con tour of the wearer above the hip points.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

1. As an improved article of. manufacture, a shirt-waist retaining beltconsisting; of a series of independent elastic tapes of uniform lengthlaid in parallelism, and in substantially close relation one to theother, binding strips for the ends of the body tapes, an intermediatebinding strip for the said body tapes. the intermediate binding stripbeingprovided with eyelets for the reception of hooks, and means carriedby the end binding" strips for connecting the end portions of the beltwhen worn.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a shirt-waist retaining beltconsisting of a series of elastic body tapes of equal length and-equalWidth laid one close to the other in parallelism, binding strips for theends of the said tapes connecting all of them at such points. eyelets located in one end binding strip, hooks carried by the other binding stripto he received by the eyelets, an intermediate binding strip attachedtransversely to all of the said body tapes and located centrally betweenthe ends of said tapes. and eyelets located in the said intermediatebinding strip.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE .T. MONTIGNY.

Witnesses R. E. JACKSON, W. VON GERICHTEN.

